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Does your local newspaper have a space news column? I wish mine did...
#news #localnews #spacenews
https://mastodon.scot/@fionaorkneynews/115835654661135458
fionaorkneynews@mastodon.scot - Space Notes January 2026
In a month when the heavyweight players in space have been relatively quiet, this is a good moment to take note of two important spacecraft which are no longer with us.
https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/01/04/space-notes-january-2026/

Amazing how a demonstrably bad idea can still pull in massive funding.
SpaceX's orbiting data center is one such idea. Space isn't "cold", it's a vacuum, the same thing that makes high-performance insulated tumblers work so well. In orbit, shedding heat will be a bigger problem than any faced on earth, such as supplying electricity.
#SpaceX

👨‍🚀 Space station crew credits ultrasound machine for handling in-orbit health crisis
#space

Space station crew credits ultrasound machine for handling in-orbit health crisis
The astronauts evacuated last week from the International Space Station say a portable ultrasound machine came in "super handy" during the medical crisis.

A small #SpaceTelescope and two really small ones should launch 10 hours from now from Vandenberg, including the #exoplanet observer #Pandora: see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-5-januar-2026/#Jan09 for many links including papers describing the three satellites and https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/01/10/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-1st-twilight-rideshare-mission/ and https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/watch-spacex-launch-nasas-pandora-exoplanet-studying-satellite-on-jan-11 for more and some of the three dozen other payloads, too.

RE: #space is

Hey! Go look at the moon. To the right is a bright dot, that is the planet #jupiter, a giant ball of gas 484,578,623.31 miles away. #lookup #space

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Space Ghost:
🎵 Forest Dub
#SpaceGhost
https://space-ghost.bandcamp.com/track/forest-dub
https://open.spotify.com/track/0nMfiQn1r0dYoWbZznBp6q

🗺️ New 'Mars GPS' lets Perseverance pinpoint its location within 25 centimeters
#space

New 'Mars GPS' lets Perseverance pinpoint its location within 25 centimeters
Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That's what NASA's Perseverance rover has been experiencing since landing on Mars five years ago. Though it carries time-tested tools for determining its general location, the rover has needed operators on Earth to tell it precisely where it is—until now.

A detection of sulfur-bearing cyclic hydrocarbons in space: #Space.

I have no idea what #musk has been huffing but clearly no one is willing to tell him no. #spacex have developed a really cool re-usable launch system but it seems like hubris to claim managing data centres in space gives you some sort of competitive advantage. Aside from making hardware swaps impossible…

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it
This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI's mission."

The #Lazuli #Space #Observatory is a project of #Schmidt #Sciences

Focus Area – Astrophysics - Schmidt Sciences

Saw this #LEGO set at my local Target store. Hard not to buy it. #SpaceShuttle #NASA

Self-driving cars, self-growing cities. Same difference. 💁‍♂️
#sarcasm #space #moon #mars #technology #humanity #future #Musk

🌚 Lunar Dust Protection Technology and Evaluation: A Review
#moon #space

Pretty sobering read. i am excited humanity is going back to the moon and proud that a Canadian astronaut is getting a chance!
Losing them would be a huge setback for the prestige and trust in the USA space program, but also a symptom of long standing problems.
I wonder if the Canadian Space Agency would reconsider whether it wanted to continue with NASA. It's clear there is a lot of concern even inside NASA about the culture.
#Artemis #NASA #CSA #Moon #Space #trust
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/science/artemis-2-orion-capsule-heat-shield?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc&recs_exp=most-popular-article-end&tenant_id=popular.en

A Physics Informed Neural Network for Deriving MHD State Vectors from Global Active Regions Observations: #SpaceWeather: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/new-research-takes-first-step-toward-advance-warnings-of-space-weather

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
Space Yo:
🎵 Boby Jack`
#SpaceYo
https://bobyjack.bandcamp.com/track/space-yo

Now that Musk has offloaded Twitter and his AI experiments to SpaceX, he can be sure the government will bail it out when the AI bubble pops. The government's defense industry depends upon SpaceX for access to space.
This is probably the main reason for the "sale" transferring money from one of Musk's bank accounts to another of Musk's bank accounts.
The AI price bubble popping could have wiped out xAI and thus Twitter with it, but now it's cushioned against that by contracts with a government who can't afford to allow their only real space access to go bust.
So he can subsidize his failing AI business and his unprofitable media-manipulation efforts at Twitter with his government-protected failing exploding space-rocket project.
All protected by the lie which the media keep repeating uncritically that it makes any sense at all to have data centers in space.
What a great businessman.
#musk #spacex #twitter #xai

Internet based on massive constellations of satellites you say?
What could possibly go wrong?
theverge@c.im - Starlink and Chinese satellites nearly collided last week #Science #SpaceX #Space #News

Ew
Baywatch Nights 2x10 - Space Spores
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #BaywatchNights #SpaceSpores